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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






2. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






3. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






4. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






5. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






6. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






7. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






8. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






9. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






10. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






11. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






12. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






13. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






14. ACWP






15. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






16. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






17. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






18. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






19. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






20. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






21. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






22. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






23. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






24. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






25. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






26. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






27. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






28. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






29. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






30. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






31. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






32. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






33. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






34. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






35. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






36. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






37. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






38. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






39. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






40. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






41. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






42. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






43. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






44. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






45. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






46. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






47. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






48. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






49. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






50. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed